From time to time, I get jet can miners who seem to think that when I find jettisoned ore drifting dangerously close to their expensive mining barges, I’ll leave it marooned and drifting, alone and unloved, simply because they ask me to. I’m always civil to these people, but I never agree to their one-sided propositions.

Sometimes, the result is smack-talk. And sometimes, it’s attempted smack-talk via a machine translator. That’s so weird, and so fun, that I usually play along (and sometimes, play a little dumb) just to see what I get.

As this conversation begins, I’m in my Crane, approaching a jet can in the vicinity of a typical farmer-Covetor, flying three drones and no doubt equipped with civilian shield boosters, eight months old and member of State War Academy. During the course of it, I made several trips back to the hangar with a hold full of ore. At the end of it, Towering warped away:
﻿towering > plz Do not take my box ok?
﻿Your box? I do not understand
﻿towering > My mineral
﻿Marlenus > Your mineral is in your ship, how could I take it?
﻿towering > I do not hope to see you are red
﻿towering > Do you know?
﻿Marlenus > No, I don't understand
﻿towering > ....
﻿towering > You like very much thus?
﻿towering > What froom are you in ?
﻿Marlenus > You mean, salvaging jettisoned ore? Yes, I like it very much.
﻿Marlenus > I don't know what a froom is, sorry.
﻿towering > Which nation do you come from?
﻿Marlenus > United States, and you?
﻿towering > I feel sorrow for you
﻿Marlenus > LOL, why?
﻿towering > I do not like to be thus you are knowing
﻿Marlenus > You don't like to be thus what, you don't like mining?
﻿towering > I do not like to be bother by the person
﻿Marlenus > You're bothered by other players playing the game?
﻿towering > But I do not like to see your time is red
﻿Marlenus > I'm sorry that one of this game's features is something that you don't enjoy
﻿towering > .......
﻿towering > The game is very good But I hope that the person is better
﻿towering > Especially American
﻿towering > Do not close to me
﻿Marlenus > I don't understand what "better" has to do with it. What's better about not playing?
﻿towering > You what stuff very much do you know?
﻿Marlenus > I don't understand.
﻿towering > For God sake you can go to the another place
﻿Marlenus > But, this is where the ore is. Why would I go elsewhere?'
﻿towering > I wanted to eat the lunch you play slowly

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